"The Two Brothers and the Gold" ("Два брата и золото") is a short story by Leo Tolstoy written in 1885.

Influence

According to Nadejda Gorodetzky, this story discusses the joys of poverty if poverty is willingly accepted.[1] According to the Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy, one should regard this text as different from other of Tolstoy's works, in that the narrator's stance is more objective and neutral.[2]

Publication history

The work was published in collections in 1882 (with translations by Aylmer Maude and editing by Leo Wiener and Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright),[3] in 1903,[4] and again in 2016.[5]

See also

References

  1. Nadejda Gorodetzky (1938). The Humiliated Christ in Modern Russian Thought. Vol. 70. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
  2. Donna Tussing Orwin, ed. (2002). The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy. Cambridge University Press.
  3. Leo Tolstoy (1882). Leo Wiener (ed.). The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy.
  4. Leo Tolstoy (1903). More Tales from Tolstoi. Brentano's.
  5. Leo Tolstoy (5 April 2016). LEO TOLSTOY – The Ultimate Short Stories Collection: 120+ Titles in One Volume (World Classics Series). e-artnow. ISBN 9788026852445.


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